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In the current context of population growth and limited arable land and fossil resources, global food security remains a major challenge worldwide. Improving the production and use of plants and micro-organisms for food, feed, health, the environment or industry in a sustainable way will require creative research in which the scientists of tomorrow must be trained.

Thanks to recent advances in molecular biology, contemporary biology has seen the advent of "omics" approaches and the possibility to generate large-scale data at different levels of analysis from the genome, transcriptome, proteome, metabolome, epigenome and others. In this context, the so-called systems biology approach aims to integrate these multiple data, to model them and to come up with predictive models of biological behaviour. The objective is to acquire a quantitative vision of biological processes such as the dynamic interactions between components of a living system, and also between living systems in interaction with the environment.

Understanding the integrated functioning of biological systems now offers new perspectives, such as the possibility of (re)constructing biological systems. This is the challenge of synthetic biology which aims at the rational design of complex systems inspired by living organisms.

The  Master 1 "Plant and Microbial molecular Biology" is part of this dynamic, by training a new generation of high-level scientists specialised in the most recent concepts of systems biology through research at an international level.

This project is also part of new so-called "active" teaching practices, by favouring the dynamic participation of students, by including them as much as possible in research teams and by encouraging tutoring.

Perspectives

International track in France combines a Master 1 (1 year) program for English-speaking students with the international M2 programs (1 year) thaught in English, offered by the Master of Integrative Biology and Physiology of the University Paris-Saclay:

- M2  Plant Sciences

- M2  System and Synthetic Biology

- M2 Biomass Engineering for Bioeconomy